[kictanet] Consumer protection a means of cutting Safaricom’s dominance

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

So technically, we want to break up Safaricom so that these companies
can gain some traction  "Airtel, has made cumulative debt to date of
Sh51 billion, according to latest audited accounts for the financial
year 2015. Indeed, in the league of loss makers, only Kenya Airways,
with their Sh54 billion lost in the most recent years, compares to
Airtel. As a matter of fact, the numbers in the company’s annual
accounts show that Airtel is insolvent and only surviving on life
support from the parent company in India. Safaricom’s only other
rival, Orange Telkom, has gone through exceedingly difficult trading
and financial conditions over the past decade. This a firm that is
technically insolvent. It has gone through several episodes of
restructuring that have not materially changed its circumstances."
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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
twitter.com/lordmwesh




On 21 February 2017 at 23:48, Grace Githaiga via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Jaindi Kisero gives us a glimpse of the competition study in the
> telecommunication sub-sector undertaken by Ms Analysys Mason on behalf of
> CA. See full article:
>
> "I recently came across a report by the consulting group Analysys Mason
> entitled "A telecommunication competition market study in Kenya". Readers
> will recall that these consultants were retained by the market regulator –
> the Communications Authority of Kenya – to conduct a study whose results
> were to inform the crafting of a new framework for regulating abuse of
> market dominance by the big players.
>
>
> As expected, one of the key findings of this study is that Safaricom’s
> market share in both the mobile communications and mobile money segments far
> exceed the thresholds where firms are typically presumed to be dominant."
>
>
> http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/consumer-protection-a-means-of-cutting-safaricom-dominance/440808-3822560-jsmlpbz/index.html
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Githaiga, Grace
>
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